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The water arrives through channels wide enough to drive a truck down. It comes off the strait between two port towns and runs straight into the…
Anyone driving the interstate between Las Vegas and Los Angeles has seen it. Three pale towers standing on a dry lake bed, and when the array…
Argonne National Laboratory researchers set out to track wildlife near solar facilities using a custom cutting-edge AI camera system. A 2026 report updated the dataset to…
The block on the bench looks like a paving offcut. Matte, sooty, chalky where the cement has bloomed through, one corner chipped and slightly greyer inside.…
The $700 million Soda Mountain Solar Project is finally in the pre-construction phase after a previous regulatory rejection over its wildlife footprint. The 300-megawatt facility covers…
The seabed here is mud and sand, flat in every direction for miles. Then four steel legs come down through it, each one wider than a…
The seafloor a few miles off Block Island, Rhode Island, is mostly sand. Sand does not suit a black sea bass. Sea bass need something hard:…
The idea is almost insultingly cheap. No sensors, no radar, no shutdown system, no software that decides when to stop a machine and start it again.…
The seabed out there is sand. Flat, shifting, poor in anything that will hold still long enough for a larva to glue itself down, which is…
The hose stayed on the grass. Three trucks, a full crew, a coastal field in the dark, and above all of it a machine coming apart…
The town of Pevek sits at the very top of Russia, far above the Arctic Circle. About 5,000 people live there, in one of the most…
Snap the frame off a retired module and the glass comes away as one sheet. Underneath sit rows of dark blue squares, each thinner than cardboard, laced…
New long-term research out of Europe is challenging long-held industry assumptions about offshore energy developments. There has been plenty of ongoing public debate regarding the visual…
A technician walks a fence line with a survey probe, which is a normal thing to do here. The post is wood. Weathered, splintered, entirely unremarkable. Under…
A small outbuilding stands about 164 feet from a house, and inside it the walls are cells. Thousands of them, upright in plastic holders, combed together…
An Illinois solar farm recorded a chorus frog calling for 32 of 34 spring days near a pond while rare butterflies fed between panels. Recent field…
The pulse lasts about as long as it takes to read this sentence aloud. Inside a steel torus, hydrogen sits as plasma at ten times the…
Somebody has to stand a mast in the corn and leave it there all summer. Cups spinning, a sonic head above them, cables to a box…
A deepwater floating wind farm nine miles off the eastern coast of Scotland is sending clean power to the grid. The airspace is shared with hundreds…
The wall does not look like a wall. Long curved panels of white composite, bolted in rows, each one tapering the way an aircraft wing tapers.…
When a wind turbine comes down, almost all of it has a buyer waiting. The tower is steel. The gearbox and generator are steel and copper.…
Future floating wind turbines off the coast of California will be anchored to deep trenches in the seabed by heavy-duty synthetic lines. Marine engineers have now…
The prairie in southeastern Wyoming does not offer much to look at. Grass, sage, a lot of sky. Then the towers, spaced out across it, each…
On a warehouse roof in July, the membrane under an array runs far hotter than the air above it. Clipped to the racking underneath sit the…
Commercial divers working from support vessels had a big job to carry out to attach experimental aquaculture equipment to the submerged columns of a wind turbine.…
A wind farm on the ridges of West Maui sees 20 turbines operating above the Kaheawa Pasture. Search crews hit a milestone recently: the latest annual…
The pier runs out into the harbor and there is nothing between it and the wind. Cruise ships tie up along it. The deck is timber,…
A retired panel arrives looking wrecked. Glass spidered across the whole face, frame chalked white, junction box hanging off the back. Pick up a corner and…
The eleventh was a short par three with a green you could hold from the tee. Then the golfers stopped coming, and the course shut in…
Taiwan’s summers are getting hotter, and aquaculture is suffering. Clam ponds in Yunlin County needed a practical solution to lower the temperature during heatwaves. Researchers came…
The tank sat more than a mile down in a working nickel mine, filled with the purest water a laboratory could make. It had been poured…
A commercial wind energy operation in Klickitat County, Washington, secured a 30-year ITP to continue operating. This long-term federal authorization enables the facility to maintain commercial…
You have seen the renders. A thin mast standing in a field, bending and springing back, bending and springing back, making power out of nothing but a…
In Brazil’s São Paulo State, a global agricultural merchant broke ground on a renewable energy endeavor linked to orange juice. The Louis Dreyfus Company is building…
On a January evening in Lincolnshire, people looked up and saw lights over the fields. Orange, moving, low. One man described a ball of light with tentacles reaching down…
Artificial reservoirs and irrigation ponds in California are being put to work as locations for floating solar panels. Installing photovoltaic systems on water is a smart…
From the road, the array near Watchfield in Oxfordshire looks like any other, rows of dark panels on low frames with grass between. Down in that…
A scrapyard will take almost all of a wind turbine. The tower goes for steel. So does the gearbox. The copper comes out of the generator and…
The St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant off Florida’s Hutchinson Island relies on huge amounts of water moving through its cooling canal. It is fed by massive…
Behind the blades of every large turbine, up where nobody goes without a harness, sits a box the size of a delivery truck. Gearbox, generator, a couple…
Researchers aboard a commercial tuna vessel offshore in the Gulf of Maine are dropping fishing lines into the water, but it is not a commercial endeavor.…
Steel trusses cross a working irrigation canal in Stanislaus County, and rows of solar panels sit on them like a lid. The water underneath keeps moving, shaded…
A white bison calf was born on April 30, 2026. The calf was seen at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa. White bison are very…
Federally mandated field crews are looking for DNA in the Columbia River. They are sweeping the reservoirs between the many hydropower dams for signs of an…
At first light a workboat ties up to a cluster of round cages moored on a cold fjord in the south of Chile. The crew step…
The sky above the Gulf of Maine gets busy in autumn. Dozens of American woodcocks that spend the warmer months feeding in the north migrate to…
On a slim mast above a roof, a lone white blade sweeps around in the breeze, small enough to look almost like a toy. The whole…
Vietnamese cocoa processor Trong Duc Cocoa Co. Ltd. is addressing a unique issue annually. Approximately 5,000 tons of empty cocoa pods remain after harvesting and processing…
The boat comes past and you hear the water before you hear the boat. There is no exhaust note, no fuel smell, no wake worth naming. The…
On Ireland’s Atlantic edge, something about the size of a small sail hangs in grey sky above a stretch of peat bog. It is not a…
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